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Generation Why Not is a boot camp for empowering individuals and organizations through building capacities in impact and authentic entrepreneurship. Our innovative workshops paired up with on-the-field experience aim at awakening the true power and potential of people to work towards individual and collective growth.

16/06/2026

How is Tromsø in Norway shifting the paradigms for remote and rural youth work? 😃🇳🇴📣

We were lucky to participate in this year’s Europe Goes Local annual conference, which gathers over 120 youth workers across European countries.

This network project is the largest in Europe, consisting of 35 members - National Agencies for Erasmus+ programs and organizations and over 300 municipalities, youth centers, and NGOs.
The chosen location for this event was Tromsø in the Arctic region of Norway, the city that is this year’s European Youth Capital. 💫💕

We got to witness how is one municipality, like Tromsø managing and developing its youth work. Tromsø acts as a regional hub, overseeing youth work for 35% of Norway’s territory and 9% of the population living there.
The city’s age is - young! 45 % of the population falls into the youth category (14-34).

The EGL conference was an eye-opener on many topics, such as youth work in remote and rural areas and its role in engaging youth in such remote local communities, whether it is a village, an island, or a periphery.

What is common for these areas is that they appear to be far from the urban political centers, might feel@isolated and disconnected and not so capable to influence the youth work policies and frameworks. 📍

But in the case of Tromsø, this is not an obstacle, but a potential for a higher level of youth participation, active citizenship, and continuous support to the quality development of youth work.

Youth workers work hand in hand with the young people and care about their region, pushing socially engaging and innovative initiatives that are sustainable and nature-conscious.

The participants had a chance to visit different local projects/organizations in which youth work has thrived in Tromsø since the 1990s and where the youth’s needs couldn’t be ignored.

We were in:

Tvibit - municipal youth club and creative center
Cultural school for youth and children
Alfheim Activity Center for disabled young people
Fellesverket at Red Cross
Tromsø International Film Festival with its youth program
Tromsø Library with its youth section
Tromsø Sami House
Outreach team Utekontakten

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25/12/2025

We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year of 2026! 🎄😍🎉🙌✨🤩
Let’s amplify the voices of youth and women, let’s turn empowerment into action, let’s make the new year legendary! 💖

04/12/2025

What an honour to participate at this year’s International Summit ‘Women, Power, Peace and Securtity’ in Brussels.

The 3rd edition of the international summit on these topics gathered prominent voices, ministers, diplomats and field experts and civil society voices to address the 25 years after the UN resolution 1325, which recognised that armed conflict disproportionately affects women and girls, and that their role in peacebuilding was systematically ignored.

With over 50 nationalities present, the summit organised by Aicha Bacha and her organisation European Center for Development and Geostrategic Studies , echoed that peace is our women’s both personal and collective work and legacy - we cannot and must not outsource it to politicians and men’s clubs. Resolutions are important for setting the direction, but if the field shows little progress, it’s time to course-correct.

Some of the highlights for the way forward:

👉 Women and multiplied by mode
👉 Focus on - girls and women as leaders
👉 Adapting the implementation of women and peace policy agenda to contexts

For our representative, the summit was a valuable platform to bring in the perspectives of women leadership and youth involvement in social change in the Western Balkans.

The summit was held in thr Belgian Senate and the European Parliament, and was an excellent day to occupy these seats by global women leaders.

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